In the flat world of maps, sharp lines show where one country ends and another begins.
在地图上的扁平世界里，凌厉的线条展示了一个国家的起始和另一个国家的终止。
On that era a land beyond the seas was unthinkable as they "live at the edge of the FLAT WORLD".
在那个时代，在海之外的陆地是根本不可想象的，因为那时的人相信他们是“住在一个扁平世界的边缘上”。
I think miracles exist in part as gifts and in part as clues that there is STH beyond the flat world we see.
我认为，奇迹在于馈赠，在于发觉平平的世界之外有些东西我们未曾得见。
Create a relatively fair society, help people to create a suitable environment to survive, is the flat world.
创造相对公平的社会，帮助老百姓创造一个适合生存的环境，就是平天下。
Today, XML is the fundamental technology driving the internationalization of applications in the increasingly flat world.
现在，在这个日益趋平的世界中，XML 成了推动应用程序国际化的基本技术。
Managers who believe the hype of a flat world do so at their own risk. National borders still matter a lot for business strategists.
相信平面世界的广告宣传的管理者们在处理他们个人的风险时也是这样做的。对于商务策划师来说国界限制仍然是一个重要因素。
It's enabling us to have smoother transactions from any location — to truly take advantage of the flat world the Internet provides.
这让我们可以在世界的任何地方顺利进行交易，也真正体会到全球互联提供的好处。
Countries, according to him, spread across this flat world as they appear to do on a map, with Antarctica as a ring of mountains strung around the edge.
照他的意思，这个大圆盘上各国的分布就像地图上那样，不过南极是环绕在圆盘边缘的一圈群山。
Lower Argentine soybean meal exports were nearly offset by larger exports from the United States, Brazil and India to satisfy flat world soybean meal import demand.
阿根廷豆粕出口量的下降与美国、巴西、印度出口量的上升基本相抵，因此全球平淡的豆粕进口需求得到满足。
Okumu, who is a doctoral candidate at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he is “working on the premise that this is a global problem — a global problem in a flat world.”
在伦敦大学卫生保健和热带医学院攻读博士学位的Okumu说，他是“他在这样一个前提下工作，即这是一个全球性的问题――一个世界范围内的全球性问题。”
I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to.
我有一种想法，就是对我们来说，世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁。
Demand for flat glass was very high and glassmakers across the world were looking for a method of making it continuously.
平板玻璃的需求量非常大，世界各地的玻璃制造商都在寻找一种连续生产的方法。
I have this theory that, to us the world is a flat thing we stand on, but to birds it is a cliff they cling to, a huge ball and they cling to the side and then fall off and fly and glide.
我有一种想法，就是对我们来说世界是一个我们所站立的平坦的东西，而对鸟来说是一个它们所依靠的峭壁，一个巨大的球，它们依靠在边上，然后离开、飞翔、滑行。
Critics of the Flat Earth Society say that its members simply deny any evidence that conflicts with their world view without offering real alternative hypotheses.
地平协会的批评家说，该协会的成员只是简单地否认任何与其世界观相悖的证据，却不提供任何其他假说来解释这些证据。
They depict4 the world as a flat disc, which shows that the Babylonians thought the earth was flat.
他们将世界描绘成一个平面的圆盘，这也显示出巴比伦人认为地球是平的。
Such primitive racial instincts were supposed to be long ago passé: We're supposed to be living in Thomas Friedman's "flat" world or Kenichi Ohmae's "borderless world."
这种原始的种族本能应该早就过时了：我们应该活在托马斯·弗里德曼的“扁平”世界里，或大前研一的“无国界世界”里。
I seemed to have driven into a country Mired in depression both financial and emotional: Beckett's world, not Joyce's. Even the D.J. 's Pope jokes fell flat.
我似乎驶入了一个不论是在物质还是精神上都陷入窘境的国家：这是贝克特的世界，而不是乔伊斯的。
Below, an image from the largest salt flat in the world, Salar DE Uyuni, located in southern Bolivia.
下图展示了世界上最大的盐滩，即位于玻利维亚南部的乌尤尼岩沼(SalardeUyuni)。
And because the world is I quote flat, you can easily, no matter where you are, access these people and these spikes.
因为这个世界是平的，所以无论你在哪里都可以轻松地，找到这些人和这些活动的分布状况。
The world was no longer flat. What were those countries that had all seemed so uniform (and uniformly drab) really like?
世界不再是平的，那些看起来如此一致的国家(一致到沉闷单调)究竟是怎样的？
On one of the flat screens, Mr. Delaney brings up a world map that lets users zoom into a city just as they would if hunting for directions online.
在其中一台平板屏幕上，德莱尼先生拿出一张在在线搜寻方位时可以让用户随心所欲放大到城市的世界地图。
One passage in The World is Flat points this out to me in very stark terms.
在扁平的世界这本书一个章节中，作者毫不掩饰地向我们指出了这一点。
When I moved into my first apartment in college, I remember telling my flat-mate Tanya I am the luckiest person in the world and she looked at me like I was a weirdo.
记得刚搬进大学公寓的时候，我就对我对床的塔尼亚说，我是世界上最幸运的人，当时她看我的眼神就好像在看一个怪人。
Today Samsung is the world leader in flat-panel TVs and the number two in mobile phones.
如今，三星是全球平板电视的风向标，也是手机市场的第二把交椅。
Rooms awash in precious antiques feel firmly routed in old-world grandeur with modern benefits like flat screen TVs and wi-fi.
房间充满了珍贵的古典气息，走着旧世界宏伟路线，同时也有现代便利工具例如平板电视和无线上网覆盖。
Surely Mr Friedman (author of "the World is Flat") and company are right about where we are headed even if they exaggerate how far we have got?
除去被夸张的部分，佛理德曼先生(《世界是平的》的作者)与跨国公司们对于改变趋势的判断就一定正确嘛？
Where else in the world has consumption grown by 7 per cent over the past 5 quarters? US consumption is flat on the horizon. Same for Europe and Japan.
世界上还有哪个地区在过去5个季度中消费增长7%的？美国的消费停滞不前，欧洲和日本也一样。
But if we base all our decisions on the knowledge that people had in 1491, the world would still be flat.
但如果我们的决定仅仅根据1491年的知识，这也是毫无意义的。
But if we base all our decisions on the knowledge that people had in 1491, the world would still be flat.
但如果我们的决定仅仅根据1491年的知识，这也是毫无意义的。
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